Well I understand that as long as the cost of repairing the flaw is higher than the cost of the flaw, doing nothing is the most logical choice. However, I fail to understand how, in the Internet as it is today, with spambots widespread, with virus factories that take only one hour to transform a patch from Microsoft into an automated exploit, a flaw like this could cost less than a its fix. For Kibo's sake! It's a trivial upgrade at a protocol (MD5->SHA-1 or SHA-2) ! If done with one year of delay (2005) they would have had 3 years to upgrade their equipments and websites before the flaw hit CCC. Now it is only a matter of hours before the first million dollars goes down the drain because of this.
These certificates are at the basis of truth on secure websites. MD5 has been known to have vulnerabilities for a loooong time (2004 according to the link article). Why do not banking services keep up to date with the state of the art crypto ?
I think that the day KDE works fine under Windows (I know there is a project but it is still not user ready, from what I read) many alternatives will appear : KOffice, Konqueror, it will bring competition against commercial software but also against open software. I believe it will stimulate development.
Because, clearly, he has an archive folder as "president of senate" and "vice president". It is far from insane to suppose he also has a folder labeled "questionable documents" he will put in the archive less likely to go public.
And what about super-virus ?
I am against all-out regulations but in this particular field, as with nuclear fission amateur project, I am willing to heavily regulate until a better solution can be found.
That. Computer science is the science managing the processing and transmission of information. It does not provide technical solution to the opposite problems. Secrets, however, have been managed for centuries by military organization. They know a great more deal about protecting secret than Microsoft does. Maybe you would better spend your time and money learning about it.
If only the paper looked like a legitimate thesis... But reading the abstract makes it obvious it is a joke:
Recent advances in cooperative technology and classical communication are based entirely on the assumption that the Internet and active networks are not in conflict with object-oriented languages. In fact, few information theorists would disagree with the visualization of DHTs that made refining and possibly simulating 8 bitarchitectures a reality, which embodies the compelling principles of electrical engineering. In this work we better understand how digital-to-analog converters can be applied to the development of e-commerce.
The first person to show me how digital-to-analog converters can be applied to the development of e-commerce wins an Internet.
No, there has to be a conversation between two interlocutors for it to apply as a Turing test. I guess it would fail miserably, after all, it just generates likely sentences:
Program : The Markovian pattern of the sequence implies the monotony of the problem
Reviewer : What do you mean by "Markovian pattern" ? and How does it imply monotony ?
Program : This can be answered by doing an inverse transformation of the semantic graph
Reviewer : Are you trying to bullshit me a la Sokal ?
Program : No, the Kullback-Leibler divergence of the problem can prove that.
Reviewer : Nice try, smart-ass.
According to this website 53 millions of iPods were sold in 2008. 0.1% of this makes 53 000 people. 1% makes 530 000 people. How much people do read Slashdot ? Overestimation is a bad thing but so is underestimation.
It will just make a drop in sales of 1 or 2%, almost not noticeable. If Apple feels like it can do without, good for them. Would they loose more profits if they ditched DRMs completely ? I doubt it and 1% is still 1%. I think there is another problem : a lot of the people willing to boycott are, IMHO, blue-chip consumers, those who helped Apple follow trends in the tech world. If Apple loses them, it may cost them more than a little drop of sales.
Well, I may have a distorted view of the Velodyne's pervasiveness because I am working on a project involving it in my current job but I seem to remember that it became quite popular after Stanley's victory. In 2006 it gave (in an early version) many good results and in 2007 I think I read somewhere that it was used on most of the competing vehicles. Many people I met told me that they saw flash-LIDARs as a promising tech and quite probably as the future of LIDAR sensing but they doubt it will become available in a form that allows it to be embeded on a mobile robot with reasonable performances within the next few years.
I fail to see how rotating machinery prevents industrialization of a product. Car engines, hard drives, optical drives, motorized camera lenses are all successful products involving precise mechanics.
I didn't know about the Swiss Ranger camera though, thanks for pointing to it ! (that's for posts like this that I love slashdot). I didn't realize that there were affordable (the Velodyne is about 75,000$) devices for range finding. However, it still does not compete with a decent LIDAR. It has a very short range (7m or 3m depending on where you look at the spec, comparing with the 80m of the Velodyne), a low resolution and a very small field of view (comparing to the 360 of the Velodyne). Still a good product, I am waiting for the next versions:)
Or they could get it technically right and mandate an electronic identification beacon on every vehicle with a decently crypted challenge/response instead of an easily forgeable plaque. They have that in Japan already.
There's been much more progress in the last five years than most people realize, though. SLAM works now. Vision algorithms actually work. Low-cost inertial devices work. We're starting to see the payoff from the DARPA Grand Challenge, which gave robotics a serious and needed butt-kick.
In my humble opinion, the Darpa Grand Challenge, by offering a market to LIDAR makers, made vision-based SLAM a thing of the past and the under-budgeted : This beast has 64 laser telemeters on a rotating head. It gives a 100 000 3D points cloud of the environment 10 times per second. A working video slam seems to pale in comparison...
Linux is a pretty good trademark. Ubuntu is getting some recognition, but, you know, Microsoft presents itself by saying "I'm a PC". "Linux" is accurate enough for me.
Maybe in 100 years we'll have a developed space industry that can build them, up there, on the cheap. But certainly not any time soon.
Space power won't solve the US dependency on foreign oil, but as you point out, it is something that could be developed given enough efforts.
I see a great benefit at space-based power generation and transmission : If it is transmittable to US, it is transmittable to almost any part of Earth. Maybe you can add a x10 multiplier on the profit made by selling this energy to remote islands which can't afford building power plants or transmission lines and who would be more than happy to cut down their dependency on the oil ship that sometimes doesn't come.
It is transmittable to any place on Earth, but could as well be transmittable to a lot of other places, in earth orbit, in Lagrange points, on the moon surface... This program could pave the way for missions requiring a lot of power (electrolysis station on the Moon's North pole, anyone ?)
Even if this doesn't prove practical before 50 or 100 years, it is not a bad policy to explore the possibilities nevertheless.
Even paranoids have enemies.
The fact that terrorists will make unusual actions should not make it illegal to act strangely. A country that imposes a norm in behavior has lost an important thing as a democracy and lost an important thing to terrorists attacks.
Nobody said that law enforcement against terrorists is easy, but going into hysteria will do nothing to arrest terrorists and nothing to preserve freedom.
In the current case, it is not the map-making that makes a terrorist, it is the intent to attack. Terrorists make maps, right, they also use computers and travel in several places, they also speak foreign language, they are critical of the state of the world. Should we outlaw all of these ?
You are talking about a smart but fool man. A wise man manages to find happiness whatever the circumstances. You'll find wise men in slums, who will say they are content with their life. You'll find fools who try to change the world because they are unhappy of the way their US cellphone fails to connect in Japan.
My sympathy is really equally split among these two...
Ok, I guess it is time I check a few distribs again. Last Ubuntu I ran didn't have it but it was one year ago. I use Debian and aptitude, so no synaptic for me. Mod my original post down.
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Well I understand that as long as the cost of repairing the flaw is higher than the cost of the flaw, doing nothing is the most logical choice. However, I fail to understand how, in the Internet as it is today, with spambots widespread, with virus factories that take only one hour to transform a patch from Microsoft into an automated exploit, a flaw like this could cost less than a its fix. For Kibo's sake! It's a trivial upgrade at a protocol (MD5->SHA-1 or SHA-2) ! If done with one year of delay (2005) they would have had 3 years to upgrade their equipments and websites before the flaw hit CCC. Now it is only a matter of hours before the first million dollars goes down the drain because of this.
These certificates are at the basis of truth on secure websites. MD5 has been known to have vulnerabilities for a loooong time (2004 according to the link article). Why do not banking services keep up to date with the state of the art crypto ?
there has been no real development in interplanetary manned travel since Apollo.
Sure, but there has been Apollo. We already went there. That's supposed to change some things.
I am doubtful that payment terminals uses only DECT's encryption to transfer confidential data. They probably add their own layer. Don't they ?
Do they also offer primes on the subject ?
That's what you say! Everytime someone, somewhere, downloads hentai, god kills a neko-girl ! Please think of the neko-girl !
These people download and install unofficial betas of Microsoft OSes, they have to be Windows enthusiasts
I think that the day KDE works fine under Windows (I know there is a project but it is still not user ready, from what I read) many alternatives will appear : KOffice, Konqueror, it will bring competition against commercial software but also against open software. I believe it will stimulate development.
Because, clearly, he has an archive folder as "president of senate" and "vice president". It is far from insane to suppose he also has a folder labeled "questionable documents" he will put in the archive less likely to go public.
And what about super-virus ?
I am against all-out regulations but in this particular field, as with nuclear fission amateur project, I am willing to heavily regulate until a better solution can be found.
That. Computer science is the science managing the processing and transmission of information. It does not provide technical solution to the opposite problems. Secrets, however, have been managed for centuries by military organization. They know a great more deal about protecting secret than Microsoft does. Maybe you would better spend your time and money learning about it.
Recent advances in cooperative technology and classical communication are based entirely on the assumption that the Internet and active networks are not in conflict with object-oriented languages. In fact, few information theorists would disagree with the visualization of DHTs that made refining and possibly simulating 8 bitarchitectures a reality, which embodies the compelling principles of electrical engineering. In this work we better understand how digital-to-analog converters can be applied to the development of e-commerce.
The first person to show me how digital-to-analog converters can be applied to the development of e-commerce wins an Internet.
No, there has to be a conversation between two interlocutors for it to apply as a Turing test. I guess it would fail miserably, after all, it just generates likely sentences :
Program : The Markovian pattern of the sequence implies the monotony of the problem
Reviewer : What do you mean by "Markovian pattern" ? and How does it imply monotony ?
Program : This can be answered by doing an inverse transformation of the semantic graph
Reviewer : Are you trying to bullshit me a la Sokal ?
Program : No, the Kullback-Leibler divergence of the problem can prove that.
Reviewer : Nice try, smart-ass.
Exactly how I felt about Windows 2000 when XP was released...
It took two service packs for it to be decent.
According to this website 53 millions of iPods were sold in 2008. 0.1% of this makes 53 000 people. 1% makes 530 000 people. How much people do read Slashdot ? Overestimation is a bad thing but so is underestimation.
It will just make a drop in sales of 1 or 2%, almost not noticeable. If Apple feels like it can do without, good for them. Would they loose more profits if they ditched DRMs completely ? I doubt it and 1% is still 1%. I think there is another problem : a lot of the people willing to boycott are, IMHO, blue-chip consumers, those who helped Apple follow trends in the tech world. If Apple loses them, it may cost them more than a little drop of sales.
Well, I may have a distorted view of the Velodyne's pervasiveness because I am working on a project involving it in my current job but I seem to remember that it became quite popular after Stanley's victory. In 2006 it gave (in an early version) many good results and in 2007 I think I read somewhere that it was used on most of the competing vehicles. Many people I met told me that they saw flash-LIDARs as a promising tech and quite probably as the future of LIDAR sensing but they doubt it will become available in a form that allows it to be embeded on a mobile robot with reasonable performances within the next few years.
:)
I fail to see how rotating machinery prevents industrialization of a product. Car engines, hard drives, optical drives, motorized camera lenses are all successful products involving precise mechanics.
I didn't know about the Swiss Ranger camera though, thanks for pointing to it ! (that's for posts like this that I love slashdot). I didn't realize that there were affordable (the Velodyne is about 75,000$) devices for range finding. However, it still does not compete with a decent LIDAR. It has a very short range (7m or 3m depending on where you look at the spec, comparing with the 80m of the Velodyne), a low resolution and a very small field of view (comparing to the 360 of the Velodyne). Still a good product, I am waiting for the next versions
Or they could get it technically right and mandate an electronic identification beacon on every vehicle with a decently crypted challenge/response instead of an easily forgeable plaque. They have that in Japan already.
There's been much more progress in the last five years than most people realize, though. SLAM works now. Vision algorithms actually work. Low-cost inertial devices work. We're starting to see the payoff from the DARPA Grand Challenge, which gave robotics a serious and needed butt-kick.
In my humble opinion, the Darpa Grand Challenge, by offering a market to LIDAR makers, made vision-based SLAM a thing of the past and the under-budgeted : This beast has 64 laser telemeters on a rotating head. It gives a 100 000 3D points cloud of the environment 10 times per second. A working video slam seems to pale in comparison...
Linux is a pretty good trademark. Ubuntu is getting some recognition, but, you know, Microsoft presents itself by saying "I'm a PC". "Linux" is accurate enough for me.
Maybe in 100 years we'll have a developed space industry that can build them, up there, on the cheap. But certainly not any time soon.
Space power won't solve the US dependency on foreign oil, but as you point out, it is something that could be developed given enough efforts.
I see a great benefit at space-based power generation and transmission : If it is transmittable to US, it is transmittable to almost any part of Earth. Maybe you can add a x10 multiplier on the profit made by selling this energy to remote islands which can't afford building power plants or transmission lines and who would be more than happy to cut down their dependency on the oil ship that sometimes doesn't come.
It is transmittable to any place on Earth, but could as well be transmittable to a lot of other places, in earth orbit, in Lagrange points, on the moon surface... This program could pave the way for missions requiring a lot of power (electrolysis station on the Moon's North pole, anyone ?)
Even if this doesn't prove practical before 50 or 100 years, it is not a bad policy to explore the possibilities nevertheless.
That is called competition. A thing that has lacked for too long in this field.
Even paranoids have enemies.
The fact that terrorists will make unusual actions should not make it illegal to act strangely. A country that imposes a norm in behavior has lost an important thing as a democracy and lost an important thing to terrorists attacks.
Nobody said that law enforcement against terrorists is easy, but going into hysteria will do nothing to arrest terrorists and nothing to preserve freedom.
In the current case, it is not the map-making that makes a terrorist, it is the intent to attack. Terrorists make maps, right, they also use computers and travel in several places, they also speak foreign language, they are critical of the state of the world. Should we outlaw all of these ?
You are talking about a smart but fool man. A wise man manages to find happiness whatever the circumstances. You'll find wise men in slums, who will say they are content with their life. You'll find fools who try to change the world because they are unhappy of the way their US cellphone fails to connect in Japan.
My sympathy is really equally split among these two...
Ok, I guess it is time I check a few distribs again. Last Ubuntu I ran didn't have it but it was one year ago. I use Debian and aptitude, so no synaptic for me. Mod my original post down.